Dude you have ex-presidential immunity. 2nd Amendment Exists. Do something
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My first thought was "surely Bush is too fucking old to be able to shoot anyone", but surprise, Bush, who hasn't been the president for nearly 20 years, is younger than Trump...
When a piece of shit like Dubya critiques someone else, you know that someone else is on another level of shitty.
"he's not even trying to dupe the nation first! he's just... bombing them! You can do that!" is probably not criticism so much as... you know... like envy or something.
Realizing you should have asked her out 20 years later.
When Satan says "damn, bro, maybe lighten up a bit" you know it's pretty bad.
Bruh you (Bush, not OP) are to blame for a big ole chunk of the authoritarian powers this man has.
They had to create an entire office of civil rights and liberties dedicated to DHS just because of the patriot act. Now we still have all the government overreach allowed by the patriot act, and a president who decided if a civil rights office gets in the way of his violating civil rights, he would just shut it down.
Yup. Bush is the one who took the door off the hinges and sold it, Trump is just the inevitable crackhead who walked in and started setting fire to the couch.
Vance: "There's a couch?"
W, the previous "stupidest president ever" is throwing stones at President Felon? Glass houses, you paint sniffing freak.
Is there a downside to people who did evil things give lip service to good things?
Agree, i never mind when any person who did evil things stands up when another person does something else evil. The more people calling the evil deed out the better.
you know he's gotta be thankful trump came along and DECISIVELY made W look almost kinda vaguely.... presidential. not competent per se but compared to trump, holy hell...
I was 17 years old when 9/11 happened. 2 weeks away from turning 18.
As everybody watched on that day, in horror, I watched from a slightly different perspective. I thought the draft was coming back. I can distinctively remember as it happened thinking I was watching the defining moment of my generation in real time as it happened. Like if pearl harbor had been televised live. And I was right about it being the defining moment, right about knowing war was coming, wrong about the draft.
Instead the war went on for decades with no draft needed. And I watched Bush bumble his way though the presidency. It still baffles me that Bush won in 2004. People saw 9/11, saw 3 years of Bush's response, and then said "Yes please, more of that!".
I genuinely thought we had witnessed the dumbest, and most evil president in history.
.........and then recently I was wrong again.
It still baffles me that Bush won in 2004. People saw 9/11, saw 3 years of Bush’s response, and then said “Yes please, more of that!”.
unfortunately I can offer insight into this aspect. I lived in south texas around that time.
the GOP is really good at sussing out divisive politics. in 2004, they knew they were in deep deep shit. so... and I really don't understand the how of this succeeded - but some how they convinced religious white latino and african americans that gay rights - people being able to marry the person they loved - was going to directly disenfranchise them or destroy the concept of marriage. a ton of people who normally would never vote R, and often never vote at all, were whipped into frothing mobs by their clergy to come out and make sure that didn't happen by putting georgie back in office. and that's not an exaggeration, they were told by their preachers to come defend jesus by making sure the gays couldn't marry.
it's 32 flavors of fucked up racism and hate. then in 2005 katrina hit and any illusion people had that the GOP / Bush admin cared one fucking wit for anyone besides rich white people evaporated. too late.
Too little too late. This means about as much as musk and the talking Cheeto having a rap battle on social media.
The worst people you know are fighting
Why hasn’t he choked to death?
Tyrants and dictators seem to have a knack for surviving against all odds. That's why JFK took a bullet squarely in the head and Trump only got a minor earlobe scrape.
Allegedly got a minor earlobe scrape.
Until they reach the point of getting Gaddafi’d
Then do something about it. I'm sick of the words all across the board from republicans. The only things they're actually doing is shitty things like the nazis did. You guys made trump and his administration, you are the only ones that can fix it now.
He won't. I think Bush knows on some level that he's responsible for a lot of awful shit in the world and desperately wants to rehab his image, but not enough to actually take responsibility for it or do anything meaningful so he just paints his dumb pictures and says vaguely critical things about Trump once in a while. But at times when it might actually matter, like during the last election when him speaking out could have potentially swayed some Republican voters away from Trump, not a fucking peep.
As it turns out, Dick Fucking Cheney has a stronger moral compass than Bush does, which I hope sinks in for him one day.
It's no substitution, but for anybody who can afford $25 here or there, maybe consider giving micro loans. I use kiva.org. Over the years, I've lost maybe $5 or so through currency exchange rates changing, while I've helped a good few people/communities.
This is great, thanks for this link! Didn't know this was a thing!
This is beautiful - thank you for sharing.
This means nothing.
They guy is just saying thank you for your service. I think what you did was worth it. It only sounds like a dig at Trump because it's near impossible to say anything nice to anyone without it somehow being against him.
frankly would be amazed if W could spell critique....
Oh yeah, that aughta do it.
Thin veils are helping no one.
blocking OP for giving GWB a platform